Delicious Home-made Food and One-Stop Shopping at The Cedar Cottage
By CATHOLINE BUTLER
VANCOUVER - As usual, after The Celtic Connection distribution is finished for the month, Colleen and I will drop into one of the Celtic establishments for lunch. After the September issue, we stopped into the Cedar Cottage Restaurant.
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STANDING IN FRONT of the deli counter at the Cedar Cottage Café is Dana Serkin.
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The Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood Pub is a little oasis of green with hanging flower baskets at the corner of Clark Drive and Kingsway. It's a friendly neighbourhood pub, with many of their regular customers from the area. Over the past year, owner and manager, Kerry Williams has renovated and added a lot to the interior and exterior of the building, including a cold beer and wine store and a café.
Actually, the whole Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood Restaurant and Pub building is very self-contained with everything located in the same building. It's like a one-stop shop location. You have the pub and restaurant, where you can have a brew and something to eat while you watch your favourite sports on the large screen high definition televisions.
If you just want something light like a quiche, a sandwich or a salad and coffee, then you have the Cedar Cottage Café. If you want to pick-up some beer or wine to take home, then there's the Cedar Cottage Cold Beer and Wine Store.
The City of Vancouver is in the process of spending 2.8 million to beautify and upgrade the streets and sidewalks around the Kingsway and Clark Drive area, this work is expected to be completed sometime early next spring.
The construction of the King Edward Village condominium complex, at the corner of Kingsway and Knight Street, is a stone's throw from the Cedar Cottage Restaurant and Pub.
The 600 condominiums in the complex are totally sold out and expected to be opened late summer or early fall 2007. Not only will the Cedar Cottage benefit greatly from this influx of people, but it will act as a catalyst to benefit the existing merchants and new merchants, who will see the benefits of opening up in this newly revamped area.
The Cedar Cottage serves breakfast until 3 PM every day, and those are decent Irish hours for breakfast! They also have a nice variety of daily lunch and dinner specials.
One unique feature at the Cedar Cottage and one that deserves a lot of emphasis - is that all their food is homemade - made from scratch in their kitchen. All the quiches, sandwiches, soups, and pastries are made on the premises, so that you're guaranteed of freshness every day. They also have a new dinner menu coming out at the end of October.
As a result of the homemade food, they now receive a lot of catering orders. Kerry Williams, the general manager at the Cedar Cottage said, "A lot of our repeat clientele is because of our home-cooked meals. It's not the greasy pub-style food that people used to expect in the pubs.
"The Lions Club loves our homemade cooking and when they have their executive meetings, we cater and deliver the food to them. Catering is starting to become another offshoot of the business, we get calls now for sandwich and party trays for meetings and such.
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SERVERS at the Cedar Cottage Restaurant and Pub are Stephanie Nikolaidis and Veneta Smith.
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"Our restaurant and pub caters to a lot of the community and neighbouring businesses for Christmas parties; fund raising parties; banquets; birthdays; and retirement events. We have a seating capacity for 198 people, with a room that offers very flexible seating arrangements.
This means that we can accommodate very large groups. Anywhere from 10 to 100 people sitting in one area. We also have two meeting rooms, the Molson room, which can seat up to 12 people, and a larger Dickens room which can cater to 40 people. The rooms are booked for community and group meetings."
The Cedar Cottage Restaurant and Pub is located at 3728 Clark Drive (corner of Clark Drive and Kingsway) in Vancouver. For more information, call (604) 876-1411.
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